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GB-110/JES/COR/17/53
Title
William Roscoe, Allerton [Hall, near Liverpool, Lancashire], to James Edward Smith
Letter date
25 Jun 1807
Author(s)
William Roscoe 1753-1831
Number of Pages
3
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GB-110/JES/COR/17/53 from William Roscoe, Allerton [Hall, near Liverpool, Lancashire], to James Edward Smith (25 June 1807)
Metadata for GB-110/JES/COR/17/53 from William Roscoe, Allerton [Hall, near Liverpool, Lancashire], to James Edward Smith (25 June 1807) Close
Item data
Item Type:
Document
From:
Roscoe, William
Sent from:
Liverpool, Lancashire
To:
Smith, Sir James Edward
Summary:
Pleased to hear that Smith may be joining his mother on a visit to Mrs Martin [Smith's sister] in Liverpool. Relieved to be free of political life, especially as he has attained his "one great object", the abolition of the slave trade, and pleased to return to his botanical and poetical pursuits. Recommends [William] Wordsworth's [(1770-1850), poet] new poems, which he listens to "with a pleasure something like that of an infant to the prattle of an old woman", and are to be read in "listlessness & leisure".
Letter date:
25 Jun 1807
Languages:
English
Prev Ref No:
17.105
Additional Information:
| Note type | Note |
|---|---|
| Finding Aids | Dawson, W R (1934). "Catalogue of the manuscripts in the Library of The Linnean Society - Part I. The Smith papers: The correspondence and miscellaneous papers of Sir James Edward Smith", London: Linnean Society. |
| Publn Note | Smith, P (ed.), (1832). "Memoir and correspondence of... Sir James Edward Smith" London: Longman, vol 2, pp.337-338. |
